Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 10, 2009…It looks like biopics with hip-hop icons are now officially in fashion in Hollywood. N.W.A. is the latest hip-hop group to have a biopic based on its story. And it looks like Big Daddy Kane could be next.Former Richardson…
It says on iTunes that Carter Albrecht’s solo album Jesus is alive … and living in London has been available since February 9. Carter’s father, Ken, and Robert Jenkins, whose Summer Break label is co-releasing the disc in conjunction with the Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, say that’s wrong, and that…
There’s really nothing for me to add to the story about Atlanta rapper Gorilla Zoe’s trip last week to Dallas’ Pearl C. Anderson Junior High School that hasn’t already been said. Except, I dunno, that maybe instead of parents and teachers getting annoyed by the fact that the rapper passed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 9, 2009…Miley Cyrus, is like, sooooo mad at being snubbed by Radiohead at the Grammys that she’s going to “ruin” them. Right. I’m sure Thom Yorke and Co. not wanting to meet Miley has nothing to do with her being…
Cut Copy, Matt & KimGranada TheaterMarch 7, 2009 Better than: anything that someone who originally found Matt and Kim’s cheeriness to be a little annoying could ever expect their stage show to be. Matt and Kim Yesterday was Kim Shifino’s happiest day ever. Or, rather, it sure seemed that way…
Giggle Party’s Jason Reichl and Katrina Michie plan to open the doors to their home, at 824 Exposition Suite 8 near the Amsterdam Bar, as a DIY venue. Writes Reichl in an e-mail: Not only will we be having shows but also special events. As you know Denton has a…
Maybe you’re like me (God help you). Maybe you heard some of PlayRadioPlay’s stuff in the past and thought, “Hey, this is interesting stuff, especially condsidering it’s coming from some kid from Aledo. If only he turned down some of that vocoder…” Well, over on his Myspace page, a couple new…
Didn’t take Pitchfork too long to follow up on the interview it ran with St. Vincent earlier this week. Today, the influential music site offers up a free mp3 of the first single from Actor, her upcoming release. We’ve already heard “The Strangers” performed live, but this, my friends, is…
It’s been, um, a couple weeks since we’ve podcasted here at DC9. Sorry if you’ve been eagerly anticipating the next installment (stop lying), but we’ve been busy on some other fronts, like with the print edition. And this here blog. What, two mediums aren’t enough for you? Thanks, guys. It’s…
No? Weird, ’cause MTV apparently is. Yesterday, the music network checked in with some of the area’s hip-hop heavyweights–or, possibly, just the ones it still had email addresses for in its “Dallas Week” Rolodex–to hear their thoughts. Play-N-Skillz seem OK with it…”I think the Cowboys will be good with or…
I think it was two weeks back now that the above song, “Song I Hate”, was announced as the second single to be released from the Toadies’ No Deliverance record (the first single, remember, was the title track). So that’s not new news, necessarily. But this is kinda new (assuming…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 6, 2009… The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores on 9/9/09, at which point it will become the most overrated game ever. Yeah, yeah. Chris Brown got charged with felony assault. Marshall Mathers is making up for lost time by releasing two…
Last week, in a blog post about my favorite band from Cowtown, The Cut*Off, I mentioned how the band would be part of this Saturday’s Texas Showcase Showdown at the House of Blues. Well, Cut*Off guitarist Jayson Hamilton just sent me an emailing detailing the line-up and schedule for this…
Over at NX35.com, which is, fittingly, the home page for the inaugural Denton debut of the former North by 35 South by Southwest day party–but on a much larger scale–the festival’s organizers have released the performance and speaker schedules for its four-day jaunt around the Denton Square. Nothing scheduled for…
Stumbled upon this press release about local music instructor Mike Ellis this morning, and figured it might raise a few eyebrows. Ellis, whose been teaching music in the Dallas area for 35 years (he’s supposedly tutored worked with well-respected artists like Chuck Rainey, Greg Bissonette and Christopher McGuire and once…
It’s been a little over a year now since Dallas rapper Tum Tum released Eat or Get Ate, the breakout album that saw the man who also calls himself Tumzilla (or sometimes just Zilla) score a moderate national hit with the song “Caprice Muzik”, and though we still haven’t seen…
I’ll be honest. I was somewhat underwhelemed by THe BAcksliders’ 2008 release, You’re Welcome. It was weird, I thought. Here’s this raucous, straight up rock ‘n’ roll band–one that’s pretty darn great live, and here’s this disc that just shimmers in crisp, clean, shiny production. Something didn’t really jive.But today,…
Per a House of Blues press release: Katy Perry’s Dallas performance has been moved back from March 21 to May 11. Tickets purchased to the original date will be honored at the new one. Per an EMI press release that showed up seconds later: The entirety of Perry’s 50-city world…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 5, 2009…Phish Heads around the country have reason to rejoice this weekend: The band is finally getting back together for a full weekend of music. But, if you can’t go, well, you also have reason to rejoice: Free downloads of…
OK, one last post for the day (for real this time): Dallas’ own Vanilla Ice has finally stepped up to the plate, by officially apologizing for “Ice Ice Baby”. No, seriously: Check it out in the clip above. Unfortunately, it appears to be part of some viral scheme with little…
Kinda a slow day round the way here at DC9. Not too too much going on. Actually, that’s not true. There’s a lot, but not necessarily enough to constitute entire blog posts. Also, our blogging system was down for a bit before. Oh well. On that note, let’s end the…
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings, the Yeast By Sweet Beast festival features experimental/improvised music complemented by video art. YBSB precedes South By Southwest, March 14-16, at Salvage Vanguard Theatre and Plush in Austin.It also offers proof that the possibilities for spin-off festival names along SXSW’s lines are…
